Once here, their lives changed drastically. As a child, Preeti’s privileged, upper-caste family left their home country of India and immigrated to America. Preeti is a young woman caught between two vastly different cultures, and never fully belonging to either one. Torn between two beautifully flawed cultures, Preeti must now untangle what home truly means to her. Surrounded by the sights and sounds of her heritage, Preeti catches a startling glimpse of her family’s battles with class, tradition, and sacrifice.

Years later, with her parents not speaking to her and her controversial relationship in tatters, all Preeti has left is her career at a prestigious Los Angeles law firm.īut when Preeti receives word of a terrible accident in the city where she was born, she returns to India, where she’ll have to face her estranged parents…and the complicated past they left behind. All she did was fall in love with a white Christian carnivore instead of a conventional Indian boy. In Mansi Shah’s stunning debut novel, a family tragedy beckons a first-generation immigrant to the city of her birth, where she grapples with her family’s past in search of where she truly belongs.Īfter her parents moved her and her brother to America, Preeti Desai never meant to tear her family apart. I received an ARC in exchange for an honest review. Many thanks to Lisa Munley at TLC Book Tours for the invite. I am thrilled to be today’s stop on the virtual book tour for The Taste of Ginger, an extraordinary debut novel by Mansi Shah. Hello and Happy New Year! Welcome The Cozy Book Blog by Diane-Lyn.

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